Chapter 44: The Chest
I don't know how Hermione picked the day, but the Malfoy family actually came to Diagon Alley on this day, Harry had seen them in Tumbledown Alley before, but naturally they met again at the Blotted Bookstore, and little Malfoy also had to come to buy textbooks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a result, when Weasley and Malfoy met together, they naturally didn't talk for more than half a sentence, and finally they fought, which scared the Granger couple enough, but fortunately, Darren comforted them, "It's okay, their ancestors have been looking at each other for eight generations, it doesn't matter what excuse they have, they just want to fight, this kind of hostility has been integrated into their blood, you should treat it as congenital hostility, just like a cat and a mouse." ”
After coming out of the Blotted bookstore, Darren suddenly remembered about Malfoy, and under the pretext of checking to see if the books that Lockhart had given to Harry were complete, he moved all the books from her, and sure enough, in the middle of a worn-out Transfiguration textbook, he found a tattered notebook, with a black cover, on which the faded date indicated that it belonged to someone fifty years ago, and this person's name, on the first page, was written in blurred ink: Don Riddle.
Well, this is the diary!
With so much going through in one day, even Harry felt that it was enough, so they began to discuss going home, Harry, the Weasleys, and the things they bought were to be shipped back to the Weasleys, the Burrow, and the Granger family was going back to the Muggle street on the other side of the city.
As for Darren, "Hagrid, you go back first, I still have some things to do, some things left over from when I was outside Hogwarts in the past that need to be dealt with, and when the matter is done, I will go to the Leaky Cauldron and use Floo powder to meet Hogwarts, don't worry." ”
"Oh, why don't you come to our house, Harry too. Ron said suddenly.
Darren was caught off guard by Ron's invitation, and it seemed tempting to go to the Burrow? to live with Harry and them.
For a moment, Darren was a little shaken, but then he thought of what he had to deal with, and decided that it would be better to go back to Hogwarts through Floo Fans, and follow the Weasleys to take the train, and enter the train station to go through security!
Although its reputation was not obvious later, at this time, Britain could not talk about sitting back and relaxing, because there was a well-known terrorist organization in the world at that time, the "Irish Republican Army", which caused many bombings in Britain, and even Marshal Mountbatten, a member of the British royal family, was killed by them.
Of course, this Mountbatten is the guy who single-handedly contributed to the partition of India and Pakistan and fought for many years, so from a certain point of view, it can be regarded as in line with the religious beliefs of Indians.
In addition, the IRA once used bombs to attack the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, they planted a bomb on the lower floor of the hotel where Margaret Thatcher lived, blowing up the room above, and if it were not for Margaret Thatcher's temporary overtime and not being in the bedroom, she would have become the second prime minister in British history to be assassinated.
Since then, staying in a hotel with three floors has been a basic security measure for dignitaries of various countries for a long time, and they are afraid to learn this trick from the IRA.
Thus, the IRA did not gradually disappear until the Northern Ireland issue was largely resolved, but by Darren's time their activities had decreased from their peak in the eighties, but still posed a major security threat.
And Darren needs to get the things back to Hogwarts, and he definitely can't get through security, otherwise he would have brought them over last year.
"Well, it's next year, school is almost in school, Hagrid has a lot of work to prepare, and I'm here to help a little," Darren eventually declined Ron's invitation and went out of the Leaky Cauldron with the Granger family to take the bus.
"Do you know how to get around?" Darren was alone in London, and Hermione was still a little worried.
"No problem, I walked through it once last year. ”
"By the way, how do you know about the Malfoys and the Weasleys. ”
"Well, I guess. ”
“…… I thought it was true. ”
At the bus station, Darren says goodbye to the Granger family once more, gets on the bus, and heads to the orphanage where he once lived, where his biggest secret to date is hidden.
As expected, when Darren returned to the orphanage, although the director welcomed him, his insincere expression clearly thought that he was a trouble, and when he heard him say that he was just coming to see and not eating or staying, he was slightly relaxed.
Revisiting the old place, Darren also sighed in his heart, after a year of pampering at Hogwarts, he now can't imagine how he lived in this environment, but at the moment, he has no ability to change all this, maybe in a few years, if he was still alive at that time.
Although it was said that Darren was allowed to wander around, the dean did not leave an inch, obviously worried about what Darren would do, but Darren didn't care, just checked the faucets of the orphanage one by one, and replaced a few of them that were broken, which made the dean's face show a trace of shame.
As Darren had predicted, in England this kind of manual work was expensive, and it had never been repaired since Darren left.
After doing all this work, Darren left the orphanage as he had said and went to an abandoned sewer behind the orphanage, where there lay a box with a thin wire attached to a water pipe above, which Darren had just untied.
It was the safest place Darren could think of, whether it was an orphanage or a church school, there was obviously no place where people could hide a chest for an entire year.
And here, Darren looked at the box with satisfaction, obviously showing no signs of opening it, because the wax oil he used to seal the box was still fine, and the humid air here was not good for preserving the items.
He opened the box, and the contents were sorted into small compartments, and there were stacks of pounds, some new, some crumpled and used, tied together with leather bands, and beside them were some jewelry and other items, packed in small bags, reflecting the light of the flashlight, and a few canvases rolled up and sealed in waterproof bags, and two daggers.
But these things, Darren only glanced at them in a hurry, and then opened the partition, revealing the contents underneath, and the three pistols lay quietly in the box.